{"id":31636,"date":"2015-06-14T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31636"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:41:24","slug":"belgiums-new-waterloo-coin-is-not-designed-to-annoy-the-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/belgiums-new-waterloo-coin-is-not-designed-to-annoy-the-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s new Waterloo coin &#8220;is not designed to annoy the French&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is, as the <em>Reg<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/06\/11\/belgium_trolls_france_with_bonkers_new_coin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Baker<\/a> puts it, &#8220;just a happy side effect&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Belgium has taken international trolling to the next level by minting a \u20ac2.50 coin to celebrate the Battle of Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p>France had objected to the plan to mint a \u20ac2 coin to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon&#8217;s defeat and Belgium duly scrapped 180,000 coins. France said the battle \u201chas a particular resonance in the collective consciousness that goes beyond a simple military conflict\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the plucky Belgies didn\u2019t take the French manoeuvre lying down and unearthed an obscure piece of legislation which allows EU countries to unilaterally mint new coins, provided that they are in an unusual denomination.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31637\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3116862\/French-suffer-Waterloo-defeat-Belgium-mints-2-euro-coins-commemorating-British-led-forces-victory-Napoleon.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31637\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Belgian-Waterloo-coin.jpg\" alt=\"The new Belgian coin in its decorative holder. Click to see the original image at the Daily Mail.\" width=\"634\" height=\"361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Belgian-Waterloo-coin.jpg 634w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Belgian-Waterloo-coin-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Belgian-Waterloo-coin-480x273.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Belgian coin in its decorative holder. Click to see the original image at the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is, as the Reg&#8216;s Jennifer Baker puts it, &#8220;just a happy side effect&#8221;: Belgium has taken international trolling to the next level by minting a \u20ac2.50 coin to celebrate the Battle of Waterloo. France had objected to the plan to mint a \u20ac2 coin to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon&#8217;s defeat and Belgium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,7],"tags":[523,563],"class_list":["post-31636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-history","tag-belgium","tag-money"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8eg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31639,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31636\/revisions\/31639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}